The Social Cost of Atheism
No such thing as an atheist hero?
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Is God Irrelevant?
Younger people are surrounded by vivid and accessible myths, like Avatar, that have taken the place of the Bible’s traditional role in providing the framework and role models for our lives.
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Can Atheists Simply Ignore Theology?
The other day, Terry Sanderson—president of the United Kingdom’s National Secular Society—published a short, scathing indictment of theology in The Guardian, a piece titled “
Read MoreAtheists in the Pulpit?
If ministers can’t even believe what they preach, how can anyone else have faith?
Read MoreDie Gedanken sind frei
Props to Hardinder, for his comment to my God Bless Steve Martin post.
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God Bless Steve Martin
Atheists don’t have no songs.
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Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers
Are believers in God crazy? Are atheists? Philosopher Eric Reitan explains why he finds the ideas of the Dawkins-Hitchens crowd wanting and why readers—atheist or theist—who want to cheer and pump their fists as “their guy” strikes back against the opponent should read something else.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet
Was Du Bois, leading African American intellectual and civil rights activist, an atheist?
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The Death of Another Deathbed Conversion
Before his death, renowned atheist philosopher and co-author of There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, Antony Flew did change his views on theism somewhat; though evidence suggests that it bears little resemblance to the pronouncements of those who sought to advance a well-worn, if seldom true, narrative of the deathbed convert.
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Godless Liberals: The Myth of the Secular Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was not, as is often assumed, exclusively secular. In fact, religious Protestants, Jews and Catholics played a key role in imagining a tolerant, but believing, society.
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